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Nature Communications retracts much-criticized paper on mentorship
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That paper with the ‘T’ error bars was just retracted
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An Elsevier paper written by ChatGPT goes viral.
🤖 So
#ChatGPT
wrote the first sentence of this
@ElsevierConnect
article. Any other parts of the article too? How come none of the coauthors, Editor-in-Chief, reviewers, typesetters noticed? How can this happen with regular peer-review?
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"Scientific articles that get downloaded from the scholarly piracy website Sci-Hub tend to receive more citations, according to a new study..."
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"Scientific articles that get downloaded from the scholarly piracy website Sci-Hub tend to receive more citations, according to a new study..."
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That paper with the ‘T’ error bars was just retracted.
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PLOS flags nearly 50 papers by controversial French COVID researcher for ethics concerns
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Sci-Hub creator Alexandra Elbakyan discusses “the legal issues between Elsevier and Sci-Hub around the world, and the tension between piracy and sharing.”
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Hydroxychlorine-COVID-19 study did not meet publishing society’s “expected standard”
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Remember that paper with the ‘T’ error bars? It was just retracted.
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That paper no one could stop talking about for 24 hours () has been retracted.
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PLOS flags nearly 50 papers by controversial French COVID researcher for ethics concerns.
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Paper claiming a lack of evidence COVID-19 lockdowns work is retracted
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Controversial French researcher loses two papers for ethics approval issues
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Scholars in Malaysia are no longer allowed to use public funds to publish articles in journals owned by MDPI, Hindawi and Frontiers.
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"The plagiarism is proven, we propose to withdraw his doctorate."
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COVID-19-vitamin D paper retracted by Springer Nature journal
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Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza retracts four papers
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Elsevier journal to retract 2012 paper widely derided as racist
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Hydroxychloroquine-COVID-19 paper we first reported on in April 2020 () should be retracted: Letter.
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Nature Communications looking into paper on mentorship after strong negative reaction
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That paper with the ‘T’ error bars was just retracted.
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It is a *big* day for Retraction Watch.
@CrossrefOrg
has acquired the Retraction Watch Database and opened it for the scientific community!
A reflection on how we got here -- and how important this is for RW.
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Psychology journal retracts two articles for being “unethical, scientifically flawed, and based on racist ideas and agenda”
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The editorial board of a journal in Peru resigned after a university official asked for the editor to be fired after he did not publish work promoting ivermectin for COVID-19.
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Co-author of paper claiming COVID-19 vaccines linked to miscarriage says he’s retracting it
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Eleven years ago today,
@TheLancet
retracted the Wakefield autism-vaccine paper.
I feel so privileged to have received my first dose of
@moderna_tx
. I would've had my 2nd today, the 11th anniversary of Retraction Day, if not for the snow. Now more than ever, we need to remember
#VaccinesSaveLives
. Happy Retraction Day, everyone.
#ThisIsOurShot
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Controversial French researcher loses two papers for ethics approval issues.
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Marseille prosecutor finds no grounds to prosecute Elisabeth Bik after Didier Raoult complaints.
Yay!
Three years after
@raoult_didier
@Pr_Chabriere_E
and
@IHU_Marseille
filed a complaint against me for harassment and blackmail, the Marseille Procureur tells me today they could not find any grounds for criminal prosecution.
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The Lancet adds conflict of interest information for Peter Daszak, who is embroiled in the “lab leak” debate.
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Hydroxychloroquine, push-scooters, and COVID-19: A journal gets stung, and swiftly retracts
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Neri Oxman accused of lifting from article whose plagiarism led to downfall of concussion expert
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By our count, at least ten papers about ivermectin and COVID-19 have been retracted. A 🧵
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Journal retracts more than 50 studies from Saudi Arabia for faked authorship
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A paper used capital T’s instead of error bars. But wait, there’s more!
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"Journal citation reports and the definition of a predatory journal: The case of the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)."
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Another ivermectin-COVID-19 retraction of a paper with a massive Altmetric score. This one happened in September but was undated until we asked Springer Nature when it was retracted.
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Exclusive: Psychology researcher loses PhD after allegedly using husband in study and making up data
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Exclusive: PLOS ONE to retract more than 100 papers for manipulated peer review
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Elsevier looking into “very serious concerns” after student calls out journal for fleet of Star Trek articles, other issues
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Paper claiming a lack of evidence COVID-19 lockdowns work is retracted.
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That paper with the ‘T’ error bars was just retracted.
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"Things I'd Like To See Written In Scientific Papers." A list from the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal cartoon.
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At least 15 doctors whose names were on a petition supporting hydroxychloroquine advocate Didier Raoult say they were forged.
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Embattled researcher Didier Raoult earns 100 more expressions of concern and another retraction
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We're delighted to report that
@EndNoteNews
users will now be notified of retractions of any publications in their library, thanks to the integration of our database.
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"Publishing negative results is good for science," writes Elisabeth Bik.
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That paper with the ‘T’ error bars was just retracted.
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Controversial French researcher loses two papers for ethics approval issues.
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Sir, this is a Wendy's.
Perhaps our name is too subtle.
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Didier Raoult papers earn expressions of concern as criminal investigation gets underway
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“The plagiarism is proven, we propose to withdraw his doctorate.”
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Neri Oxman accused of lifting from article that had already been plagiarized.
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“Belgian researchers chose to bypass all standard science publishing protocols to publish research that has been overhyped and isn’t well understood.”
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Didier Raoult papers earn expressions of concern as criminal investigation gets underway.
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“Activist Archivists Are Trying to Save the ‘Pirate Bay of Science.’”
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Elsevier investigating hydroxychloroquine-COVID-19 paper
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"Embattled Harvard honesty professor accused of plagiarism."
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Following outrage, chemistry journal makes a paper decrying diversity efforts disappear
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"If we were all restricted to two papers per year," says
@deevybee
, "the literature would improve markedly."
#metascience2019
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15. That's how many papers about COVID-19 have been retracted so far.
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"Scientific articles that get downloaded from the scholarly piracy website Sci-Hub tend to receive more citations, according to a new study..."
An Earlier Take:
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A study that claimed masks harm is retracted.
A thread on its problems.
This systematic review and meta analysis on mask harms has gone viral recently as it purports to show negative impacts of masking on various pathological factors
It is, unfortunately, filled with serious errors and issues 1/n
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Ivermectin papers slapped with expressions of concern
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This is quite a correction for the misspelling of one author's name by a single letter.
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Paper that found ‘climate crisis’ to be ‘not evident yet’ retracted after re-review
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Journals retract six Didier Raoult papers for ethics violations.
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“ChatGPT writes believable scientific abstracts, though with completely generated data.”
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"Simply contributing data to a study or serving as a representative of a research consortium does not alone fulfill criteria for authorship...Authorship must not be bestowed in an honorary fashion," say
@JAMA_current
editors.
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Scholars in Malaysia are no longer allowed to use public funds to publish articles in journals owned by MDPI, Hindawi and Frontiers.
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Controversial French researcher Didier Raoult loses two papers for ethics approval issues.
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“I do wish that journal editors would not take six years to perform an investigation and to retract.”
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"Much of the research that emerges in the coming weeks will be turn out to be unreliable, even wrong. We'll be OK if we remember that." Our
@ivanoransky
and
@armarcus
in
@WIRED
.
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Blaming “overflow of manuscripts” and “obviously biased” reviewers, journal will retract homeopathy-COVID-19 paper
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Sleuths such as
@MicrobiomDigest
@DavidSandersRep
@jamesheathers
@sTeamTraen
"should be compensated and given access to tools to improve the hunt for errors and fraud — not face ridicule, harassment and legal action."
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After a journal banned p values, "We found multiple instances of authors overstating conclusions beyond what the data would support if statistical significance had been considered."
#metascience2019
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Nature says it wants to publish replication attempts. So what happened when a group of authors submitted one to Nature Neuroscience?
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Authors of study on race and police killings ask for its retraction, citing “continued misuse” in the media
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“Journals are retracting more and more papers because they’re not by the authors they claim to be.”
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A paper used capital T’s instead of error bars. But wait, there’s more!
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Gregg Semenza is at least the fifth Nobel Prize winner to retract a paper after their award.
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If you found Plandemic even the slightest bit convincing, we'd urge you to read our backgrounder on Judy Mikovits:
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Embattled researcher Didier Raoult earns more than 100 expressions of concern and another retraction.
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Stanford prof appeals order to pay $428K in legal fees after dropping defamation suit.
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Paper claiming a lack of evidence COVID-19 lockdowns work is retracted.
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Marseille prosecutor finds no grounds to prosecute Elisabeth Bik after Didier Raoult complaints.
Yay!
Three years after
@raoult_didier
@Pr_Chabriere_E
and
@IHU_Marseille
filed a complaint against me for harassment and blackmail, the Marseille Procureur tells me today they could not find any grounds for criminal prosecution.
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A seventh retraction for Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza.
Earlier, when he was up to five.
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A paper which argued that 5G cellphone technology could lead to infection with the novel coronavirus has been retracted.
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What happened when we tried to get a paper claiming ‘billions of lives are potentially at risk’ from COVID-19 vaccines retracted
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Elisabeth Bik awarded the John Maddox Prize "for standing up for science in the face of harassment, intimidation and lawsuits."
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A paper used capital T’s instead of error bars. But wait, there’s more!
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Did you know that
@PLOSONE
ended 2019 with 101 retractions, breaking the 100 barrier in the last days of the year? A look at what -- and who -- contributed to this total:
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A preprint estimates "at least 60,000 papers...were LLM-assisted."
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A month after announcing an investigation of a paper that claimed women in science fare better with male rather than female mentors, Nature Communications retracts the article.
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